Author of quotes: Red pill-2



"Imagine a Turkey, says Taleb, which diligently fed every day and is convinced that the friendly attitude of the people."
Imagine, though: from the Turkey, everything was just wonderful - beautiful, well-fed, plump... you already Have the feeling that it smells like bacon?
"On the eve of thanksgiving, continues Taleb, - Turkey, there will be something unexpected, she realizes that was wrong."
Really, the most "successful" of them - the first to go to slaughter. Fried apples, she solemnly served to the table, and Taleb summarizes:
"The confidence of Turkey in the security reaches the maximum when the risk is the highest."
You know, and this is also true. True, which is objectively impossible to prove. But it is true that later will prove.
№ 401715   Added MegaMozg 30-07-2020 / 09:27
Only fear is still potentially a resource and a motivating feeling. But we are afraid it is really stopped - because that's what it is. "Deprivation and hardships", "through thorns to the stars", "that was not painfully hurt for aimlessly lived years" - it's all anachronisms.
When the requests fall, and they fall in the vast majority of people stuck in the Internet and they have nothing to lose, and their future is not scary, because somehow it did before? Plus the entertainment industry does not get bored, why bother? Everything you need - bread and circuses - is.
№ 401714   Added MegaMozg 30-07-2020 / 09:24
About sex in the era of Tinder and Badoo, and say nothing at all. "Forbidden fruit" has become so accessible as trivial, of little value so what to say about him as a human motivating force is just ridiculous.
Before sexuality is directly associated with marriage and marriage - that was the whole story. Relatives of the family, all had to convince everyone that the groom and the bride meet the status, have an adequate level of welfare, education, etc., etc.
№ 401713   Added MegaMozg 30-07-2020 / 09:21
In a world where every human, where any "personal opinion", no matter how idiotic it may be, cannot be challenged because it would infringe on the "rights and freedoms", the regime can no longer be - neither actual nor symbolic.
№ 401712   Added MegaMozg 30-07-2020 / 09:18
Therefore, it is not necessary to run from situations where you painful and hard, but look for them. And finding it, to stop any self-pity and appreciate the complexity of the task that you choose. The more complex the task, the stronger will strain your brain, and the more he strained, the more it will be a lazy - good.
№ 401711   Added MegaMozg 30-07-2020 / 09:15
Paradise will come, when your final, as you now it seems the goal is achieved, You will be left with the same inner tension of the reticular formation and with the same desires that are satisfied, rise again with even greater force.
Continuing to work, realizing their ambitions consistently from decade to decade, you will be able to live life as a long, consistent climb upward. Otherwise a fast take-off is likely to result in emotional fall, a total disappointment and a sense of emptiness.
№ 401710   Added MegaMozg 30-07-2020 / 09:12
Whatever it was, it is, as they say, an important life hack: if you want to get more pleasure from work and feel better, happier, find a way to see the results of their work benefits other people. Learn to think of them as those to whom you want, for whom you are doing something valuable and important.
№ 401709   Added MegaMozg 30-07-2020 / 09:09
We - the people with the brain of CRO-magnon man - forced to live in the culture, social myths, cities, business, family. The entire world we see before us is true, despite the fact that we work together and created it.
Now all our feeble efforts to somehow coordinate their biological nature with life, we are doomed.
We must learn to live in a world where there is no more need to constantly think about survival, but you need to learn how to deal with temptations to which we are susceptible.
№ 401708   Added MegaMozg 30-07-2020 / 09:06
If we believe that suffering in our lives should not be just, it is, of course, a terrible curse. If we think that it is a punishment given to us for some imagined sins that this test of our spiritual power, our cross, it is altogether incredible stupidity.
In either of these two cases, we will not only suffer, we are still unhappy because they suffer from. In the end, makes us miserable is not the suffering in itself, but when we begin to feel sorry for yourself.
№ 401707   Added MegaMozg 30-07-2020 / 09:03
So don't jump to conclusions. Give it time, and the "hedonistic treadmill" will put everything in its place: if you have not begun to suffer at the entrance, because it was well-decorated with hope, you will begin to suffer in the process.
It works like that. Your brain works like that.
№ 401706   Added MegaMozg 30-07-2020 / 09:00
Of course, it is interesting to learn new things. But even the first five minutes, and then the brain begins to suffer. Brain also have to re-make itself under new experience, to form new skills. In fact, he now have to shift within itself the nervous way - it is impossible to change, to grow spines sandelowski
№ 401705   Added MegaMozg 30-07-2020 / 08:57
World anyone not smeared with honey, so let's not lie to each other: let a man and should not suffer, but suffer he will. All sorts of allegations of reverse lead people, and ourselves astray.
However, if only this, it is not so bad. But there is a second part, a purely physiological: our brains are lazy, so he will suffer in any case, if he had at least a little tense - are you studying something, work with, simply build a relationship with another man.
All of this work, requiring intellectual effort brain, forming new neural connections, build complex models of reality that takes into account the interests of other people, etc. etc. so he sits there with you in cranial box quietly to him, warm and calm. And then BAM, something to do, to grasp, to understand, to lift butt off the couch and dragging her somewhere. Of course, he doesn't.
№ 401704   Added MegaMozg 30-07-2020 / 08:54
In short, this I mean that suffering will still have: you will suffer, or the fact that I don't know what to do with himself ("I don't know what I want"), or due to the fact that will to do something. In any case, the "hedonic treadmill" under you and the choice: flee or run.
№ 401703   Added MegaMozg 30-07-2020 / 08:51
That is why the knowledge, understanding, information and skills is a key value for the quality of life for potential success. Be willing to succeed, ignoring the work of knowledge, analysis, thinking, training skills, means to condemn ourselves to suffering, frustration and regular fiasco.
№ 401702   Added MegaMozg 30-07-2020 / 04:33
In short, you give to those who really need an opportunity to breathe and say, "I don't want to." Don't make them repeat: "I don't know what I want." They know their brain knows.
They are where they are precisely because they do want - not fame, not success, not millions, but just quiet, normal, full of simple pleasures of life. Why not? What's wrong with that?
If we really believe that every person has the right to their life, give them (or yourself) the opportunity to quietly live their (or your) life without a sense of shame that you are not justified in any and it is unclear whose expectations.
№ 401701   Added MegaMozg 30-07-2020 / 04:30